Canada eh?

Hello Canada. 2012 was a pretty hectic year. I got approved as a Canadian PR just 2months after I applied, totally unheard of that I asked the officer if this was a gotcha call.

That being said, I landed as an immigrant Dec 2011 but flew back after New Year to close all the loops back home.

Submitted my resignation only to be told I can apply for internal transfer which delayed my move to end of May instead.

7 months has passed since I officially contribute to Canadian income tax, was it worth it? To be updated....

Rock Paper Scissors!!

Type wedding anniversary and you'll get the following definition:

A wedding anniversary is the anniversary of the date a wedding took place

That was from wikipedia and if you click on the links, you would be interested to know that in Commonwealth realms i.e. anything Britain has ever conquered...the Monarch actually wishes you on 60th, 65th and 70th wedding anniversary. They probably did an analysis that most wedding wouldn't reach that especially this day and age.

This would be our first wedding anniversary. 365days as husband and wife...although technically we have only spent half of it in actual presence of each other. Just 2 months into the PR to Canada process, we have 10 more months to wait and chances are we will only get to start a real marriage by our 2nd Anniversary.
Long distance relationship is tough but long distance marriage is a gazillion time tougher. I never doubt that we would make it to our 1st Anniversary and I have faith that we will make the consecutive ones too.

Traditionally, the 1st year gift is suppose to be Paper in the U.S and Cotton in the U.K. Apparently modern U.S has changed it to Clock, this may be due to Save the Trees movement. I'm taking it a notch higher by gifting a blog post. It's 'paper'-like but I don't require cutting of trees materials. So honey, here's my gift to you, publishing this to the internet world that I love you dearly and Happy 1st Anniversary hubby!!!

Daddy Dearest

My lifelong dream of going to Disneyland will come true next year! Mickey And Minnie maybe French but hey, nobody can hear them over the huge head...

Next spring the whole family is heading to Europe, first stop Paris...cest la vie. Thanks Daddy for making it happen. i find my father becomes more generous as he gets older...Maybenow that he earns more and doesn't have to raise 4 children anymore he is full of surpluses. Not complaining although it does feel weird to have your dad still buying you stuff when you already have kids of your own :)

I hope one day I can give him what he wants...i.e. A brand new Merc or Beemer. Patience ya Daddy, I promise you I will...

Apple vs Blackberry

I am not a fan of touchscreens..after using Dopod when it was one of the 'in' mobile pda-s to have back in 2006, i've sworn off touchscreens appliances. Maybe it's my fat fingers..so never really caught on the iphone fever. Instead I've been a BB loyalist, first the Curve then the Bold. But as much i love their qwerty keypads, the software had failed me many times. I am currently on my third BB in 2 years.

However, daddy gave me an ipad2 recently and ofcourse the typing has improved as the qwerty is bigger (fat fingers remember). But i still find navigating for the apostrophes and quote symbols a hassle. Maybe over time it'll be easier...

Overall, i find the ipad is useful to past time only while waiting either at the airport or on the plane, but then again I also have my DS lite for that same reason. The fact is doesn't support flash limiys your surfing satisfaction but cool apps like djmixer and instagram was very much welcomed and the skype quality is also better than my netbook.

Another thing i find it useful for is notes. Now i can keep all my notes in one place especially work notes instead of writing in a new one everrytime i forgot where i put it last.

I guess my dad summarised it best when i suggest he gets one for himself, "i only buy what I need, not what I want..."

Contemplating motherhood

After 2 kids from previous marriage, I am currently contemplating if I should have another one. My eldest will be 10 this year and the youngest is going to turn 8. That is basically more than 5 years of no diaper changing, no waking up in the middle of the night  for formulas, actually having a social life and to start that all over again is a very BIG decision to make for me. However, since both are girls, I am dying for a son and since both were Caesarian birth, I basically have one chance of getting the chromosome mix right. XY vs XX....LOML is convinced he's got the cocktail perfected, goodluck Mister!

For fun, we had a go at morphing our faces at this website http://www.morphthing.com/baby to see what he/she would look like and ta-daaaaaaaaaaaaa...

Ain't he a bundle of joy..let's just hope he turns out more or less the same

p/s:  this might just trigger my brooding instinct after all........